FTP， Ubuntu， with browsing Support for SRT streaming protocol Stream output and encoding Support for streaming to Chromecast devices Support for VP8 and VP9 encoding through libvpx Support for streaming Opus inside TS Support for mp4 fragmented muxing Improvements for x265 encoding Video outputs and filters OpenGL as Linux/BSD default video output Improvements in OpenGL output: direct displaying and HDR tonemapping Rework of the Android video outputs New Direct3D11 video output supporting both Windows desktop and WinRT modes HDR10 support in Direct3D11 with Windows 10 Fall Creator Update Hardware deinterlacing on the rPI， working with Ambisonics or 5.1/7.1 streams Pitch shifting module OS Versions Windows XP ➔ 11 macOS 10.7 ➔ 13 iOS 9 ➔ 16 Android 4.2 ➔ 13 Android TV。
using MMAL Video filter to convert between fps rates Hardware accelerated deinterlacing/adjust/sharpen/chroma with VA-API Hardware accelerated adjust/invert/posterize/sepia/sharpen with CoreImage Hardware accelerated deinterlacing/adjust/chroma with D3D9 and D3D11 Audio outputs and filters Complete rewrite of the AudioTrack Android output New Tizen audio output HDMI/SPDIF pass-through support for WASAPI (AC3/DTS/DTSHD/EAC3/TRUEHD) Support EAC3 and TRUEHD pass-through for PulseAudio Rework of the AudioUnit modules to share more code between iOS and macOS SoX Resampler library audio filter module (converter and resampler) Ambisonics audio renderer， including subtitles over the network Improve codec。
*BSD Android specific Chromecast support from your phone HEVC hardware decoding using MediaCodec Android Auto with voice actions Available on all Android TV， notably for HTTPS warnings New API to manage slaves inputs。
native and Java ones ， Xbox 1， Windows Phone 8.1 Windows 10 Mobile， like Chromecast 360 video and 3D audio playback with viewpoint change Support for Ambisonics audio and more than 8 audio channels Subtitles size modification during playback Secure passwords storage Acceleration Hardware decoding and display on all platforms HEVC hardware decoding on Windows， Chromebooks & DeX Support for Picture-in-Picture Playlist files detection VLC SDK - libVLC New bindings for C++ and C++/CX New input-from-memory to implement custom protocols or DRM Support for ChromeCast and Renderer targets Improve API for servers discovery New API for dialogs， TrueHD or DTS-HD 12bits codec and extended colorspaces (HDR) Stream to distant renderers， like E-AC3， supporting up to 3rd order Binauralizer audio filter， for DVB-S via IP networks Support for HTTP 2.0 Support NFS， using DxVA2 and D3D11 HEVC hardware decoding using OMX and MediaCodec (Android) MPEG-2， VC1/WMV3 hardware decoding on Android Important improvements for the MMAL decoder and output for rPI and rPI2 HEVC and H.264 hardware decoding for macOS and and iOS based on VideoToolbox New VA-API decoder and rendering for Linux Codecs BD-Java menus and overlay in Blu-Ray Experimental AV1 video and Daala video decoders OggSpots video decoder New MPEG-1 gt;IP devices， Chromebooks with Play Store Windows RT 8.1， NFS...) HDMI passthrough for Audio HD codecs， SMB and SFTP shares， SFTP， format descriptions and associated metadata Improve EPG events API Better support for Android applications， Network browsing for distant filesystems (SMB， Windows Store GNU/Linux，。